[CarrotAndStick]

Homo Heidelbergensis 400,000 years ago.

[LibWhacker]

Homo heidelbergensis

[GeronL]

no more blaming white anglo-saxons??

[Bodies]

Homo sapiens agenda ping!

[nopardons]

bttt

[wickedpinto]

this will be used by anti-westerners as a proof of the western tendency to a hegemony.

[goresalooza]

I thought Geoggo Wuggago Bushmaster the 1st of Florabad was at fault, no?

I'm just a simple cavewoman...your world frightens and confuses me.

[Lokibob]

The best theorys in science are the simpliest, so here goes:

Homo heidelbergensis women were so ugly that they couldn't find a mate.
They were so ugly that beer did not improve their looks at 2 am in a cave.
Homo heidelbergensis women lived primarily in France, and their smell has continued theu the ages.
Homo heidelbergensis women were harpooned in the ocean.
Homo heidelbergensis were so ugly, they had to tie a mammoth bone around their neck so the dog would play with them.

You get the idea.

[anton]

Hey, wait a minute, that's exactly what happened in my old neighborhood. It started pretty innocently, but before you knew it, trick or treat ended like this:

"At a press conference Friday afternoon, Cincinnati Police announced a break in the Halloween shooting of a Price Hill man.

Police have arrested three males, one 18 year old and two juveniles in connection with the shooting of a longtime Price Hill resident.

Charles Iles, 84, was in has house when would-be trick or treaters forced their way into the house on Terry Street, demanded money, and then shot Isles twice in the chest.

Iles, who had been on life support since the incident, was removed off the lifeline on Friday.

Stay with FOX19 News as we continue to update this story."

[BenLurkin]

Per the Smithsonian:

Homo heidelbergensis


Homo heidelbergensis is the species name now given to a range of specimens from about 800,000 years ago to the appearance of anatomically modern Homo sapiens (the species to which we belong). The species name was originally proposed for the fossil mandible discovered at Mauer, a town near Heidelberg, Germany. It is a nearly complete early human mandible that is very robustly built, but lacks a chin. Additional finds of early humans with morphological attributes of both modern humans and Homo erectus have shown that the transition from early and middle Pleistocene forms and the morphology of modern humankind was not a neat transition that could be easily explained.

For many years, scientists placed any problematic specimens displaying mixtures of "erectus-like" and "modern" traits into a confusing category: "Archaic" Homo sapiens (basically meaning any Homo sapiens that didn't look quite modern). Recently, it has been proposed to separate these individuals into a distinct species. For this purpose, the Mauer mandible, and the species name Homo heidelbergensis has seniority.


http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/heid.htm

[SunkenCiv]

Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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[EJK212]

I stumbled upon your post after googling "70,000 years ago." I was doing some casual research on the Toba Catastrophe Theory. There were many interesting developments occurring during that time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

Humans started wearing clothes:

http://www.nature.com/news/2003/030818/full/030818-7.html;jsessionid=03BA4C5430C5BFA794D1A36BC8BB75F0

Another eruption, in Yellowstone:

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/faqshistory.html

Sea levels fall and Bering land bridge opens up North America for human migrations:

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/faqshistory.html

We learned to think:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/learnthink.shtml

All FWIW...